Last week, breaking news hit that Full House star Lori Loughlin and Desperate Housewives’s Felicity Huffman were two of 33 parents that were caught in a college entrance scam known as “Operation Varsity Blues.”

Elites paid large amounts of money to coaches and college recruiters in order to secure an acceptance from prestigious schools like Yale, Georgetown and University of Southern California. Loughlin allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes to get her daughters on the row team — even though they aren’t athletes. The cooperating witness, who some call the “ring leader” of the scam, was William Singer, the CEO of a college prep company in California.

The scam also involved cheating on entry exams like the SAT and ACT. Mark Riddell, the man who allegedly took the SAT for these students, was reportedly paid $10,000 per test by Singer. According to Buzzfeed, the criminal complaint by the FBI in Boston explains how they got away with it: “By posing as the actual students, and … by providing students with answers during the exams or by correcting their answers after they had completed the exams.” In all, 50 people were charged.

The news dominated media across the country. Black and Latino voices on the web expressed their perspective: Without all the criminality and cheating brought up by the scandal, the playing field is already tilted toward rich white people. While affirmative action has been demonized, wealthy have access to resources like SAT-prep courses and guidance coaches — resources that many POC don’t have. The idea that the privileged would still go out of there way to cheat in a system that benefits them is a frustrating thought to those who actually work really hard for the same academic consideration.

Here are some of the voices sparking the wider discussion:

This right here. I always say as long as we have a separate and unequal system of education there is no meritocracy in college admissions. But @ClintSmithIII rightfully goes even further. Even families who have every single advantage are determined to buy their way into more. https://t.co/IaWFncEr91

The conversation we should be having about the #collegescam: Wealthy white folks disparage Black and Latinx students about affirmative action, while simultaneously using their money to buy admission into the universities that our parents sacrificed everything to get us into.

The imposter syndrome is real. There were very few professors who had empathy for my situation or the fact that I was the only queer latinx in the classes,and unable to afford to go to a public university #collegescamhttps://t.co/3zMvobX5VH

How many Black or Latinx grads of Ivies were told they were only there bc of their race? This goes to not only the fraud that was done here, but the legal legacy applicants whose parents can buy a building on campus to guarantee #college#admission. #collegescam#collegeexamscam